xi, 259 pages 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references

Part One. The Negro and the city. "No crystal stair": Negro New York, the 1890's ; "Come out from among them": Negro migration and settlement, 1890-1914 ; Alienation: New York and the Negro ; Urban Progressives: Negro and White -- Part Two. The making of a ghetto. A genteel community: Harlem, 1890 ; The other Harlem: roots of instability ; Race enterprise: the Afro-American Realty Company ; A neighborhood transformed -- Part Three. Harlem Slum. Harlem tragedy: an emerging slum ; "Harlem must be saved": the struggle for survival ; A taste of honey: ward politics -- Epilogue: Symbols of the Jazz Age: The New Negro and Harlem discovered

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